Désenchantée

2023

"Nothing has any meaning anymore, nothing is right, everything is chaos."

When I first heard these words from Désenchantée by Mylène Farmer, something shifted in me. That raw and melancholic energy stayed with me not as a lament, but as a lens. A way of seeing the world unravel, quietly, beautifully.

This collection was born from that feeling. A sense of fallen glory, of structures collapsing in slow motion. I wanted to capture the moment when everything starts to dissolve, when decay becomes more expressive than perfection.

I chose solid oak as my primary material and pushed it to its limits. Each surface was burned, then brushed, then burned again. I wanted the wood to feel like it had lived a hundred lives, cracked, scarred, yet stubbornly present. It became almost geological, like a fossil of something once sacred.

The bronze feet, sculpted by hand as always, were given a subtle gradient to create the illusion of levitation. The whole piece feels suspended, held together by tension, as if defying its own fragility.

This body of work speaks of disillusionment, but not despair. It’s about what remains after the fire. What stands, even when meaning seems lost.

Objects in “Désenchantée” mythology